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everything better is cold. That's right. A simultaneous sip. Paul, where are you? So good. All right. Well, let's check in with science and see if there's any work they did that maybe they didn't need to do. Maybe they could have just asked me. Oh, here we go. Fabiana Bontempo is writing about a new study that says if you're a husband, there you are Paul, if your husband has one of these jobs, h…
← Previous segment →t's exactly the right place for it. So I don't know if this is real but I think it is. I saw a picture of it, so it must be real because I saw a picture. But now that I'm getting ready to tell you, I'm losing my confidence that this wasn't AI. It could have been an AI picture, but the picture showed a perfectly orange shark allegedly swimming off of Costa Rica, and I guess they caught it. And it would be a very rare kind of shark, perfectly orange. And I said to myself, you know what? That would make a great national fish for the United States. Wouldn't it be great if Trump said, "Hey, I just found our new national fish. It's the orange shark." That should be his new logo, an orange shark.
All right. Well I guess SpaceX, the company SpaceX is now officially the most valuable private company in the world. Now, obviously there are public companies that are worth more, but of private companies it's the most valuable private company in the world. It's worth reportedly $350 billion. So that's bigger than ByteDance that owns TikTok that's 300 billion and OpenAI at 300 billion. So that's pretty impressive. They're sending up some more rockets yesterday. I guess everything's working out well.
Well, believe it or not, Cracker Barrel is going back to the old logo. So they're giving up on their new logo. They're going back to the old one. If you remember what the old one looked like, it was a picture of Mike Pence next to a barrel. Now, I don't know what Mike Pence was doing next to that barrel, but I don't think it was about crackers, if you know what I mean. Anyway, that happened only a few hours after Trump had done a Truth Social post saying that they should go back to the old logo. And a few hours later Cracker Barrel said, "Yep, we listened to our customers." They didn't say anything about Trump, but they said, "We listened to our customers." And sure enough, I think they may have been listening to their investors too. Because they got just hammered. Will it help that they're going to change their minds? I don't know. Does that change any of your minds? Do you feel like, "Oh yeah, now we could go to Cracker Barrel because they changed that logo back." Well, if you didn't like that they were being woker than most companies are woke, that would be what they're doing. So changing the logo back wouldn't really change anything, right? Except they got a better logo now than they had. So they got some free publicity, but I don't feel like people are going to go back because of the logo. That's not really why they stopped going. That was more just emblematic of the fact that white men were being demoted and everybody else in the world was being promoted.
I saw Matt Walsh had some things to say about that apparently. And the Vigilant Fox picked this up that Matt Walsh is saying that there were eight women and no men on the Cracker Barrel's all-female marketing team. I don't know how he knew that, but I'm sure he's right. And the all-women marketing team basically destroyed a 55-year-old legacy. And he says that DEI isn't diversity, it's displacement. All right. I don't like to argue the definitional things, but that's fair enough. And then Matt goes further and he says, "Take any organization that has gone out of its way to bring down the number of white males in leadership. Have any of those organizations improved as a result? Any of them?" And we all know the answer is no. Well, actually I don't know that. I feel like it's a big world. Somebody must have an example of at least one major company that introduced massive diversity and they did better. That has to exist, doesn't it? I'm not a big fan of discriminating against white men as you know, but I'm sure it's worked out at least once even if you don't like it.
Well, Trump had his big cabinet meeting. And I am so impressed with how innovative Trump is for his age. You really don't expect him to innovate just all over the place all the time. And I would say that even his rallies are innovative. He's doing crypto that's innovative. He's stimulating all the right businesses at the moment. That's innovative. But I love that he did what over three hours of open questions with his cabinet. Now it's like he's done it several times now, but nobody's ever done that or anything like it. And it makes all kinds of news because he's got all kinds of quotes on different topics. So I wrote down a bunch of them because everything he says is a little bit news making every time he talks.
One of the things Trump said about the accusations that he's a dictator, he said, "I'm not a dictator. I just know how to stop crime." Now he said it kind of with a smile. So he's sort of mocking the people who say he's a dictator. But obviously as long as Adam Schiff is still alive, he's not a dictator. If you want to know the canary in the coal mine, as long as Adam Schiff can just go to work, talk on TV anytime he wants and still gets his paycheck and still does his thing. It's hard to say Trump's a dictator, but the Department of Justice may have something to say about that. We'll see. But I like how he put it. I'm not a dictator. I just know how to stop crime. And that's like perfect framing because you have to talk about both of them in the same sentence. And then it reminds people he knows how to stop crime because he's doing it in DC. Anyway, that apparently it's working. National Guard in DC to reduce crime, the numbers are down. But I warn you that you can't trust any crime numbers anywhere. There are no crime numbers that you can trust. And you also don't know that it'll stay that way. You know, if they take their foot off the pedal, what happens then? I don't know. But the locals, every time you see an interview on the street, it's a local saying, you know, I'm really glad they're doing this. They should do it in Chicago. So the news is having a terrible time finding somebody who says, "Oh, we don't like this. We don't like this dictator stuff." So apparently the whole dictator thing is something that the news has to talk about, but it doesn't appear to be anything that resonates with the public. Even the people who don't like Trump, they're just not really seeing him stealing the democracy so much. I think they are seeing him reducing crime. So that looks like another 80-20 or maybe 60-20, whatever it is, Trump wins.
And then we get to watch people like the professional liar class like Jamie Raskin. He's basically almost coming out in favor of not fighting crime and it just makes him look like such a joker and such a loser. It's hilarious. And apparently I saw Eric Daugherty had a post on X. He said just came out according to the AP there's a new poll that says Trump's approval rating has surged five points since he did the DC crackdown and his new approval on crime is a majority of 53%. So now Trump is solidly in the majority of the country who's enjoying him cracking down on crime. So he wins again. Golden age. And 81% of Americans in that survey said crime is a major problem. Yeah. Yeah, they do.
Kevin O'Leary agrees. He was just on CNN and he said, we haven't even mentioned war zones like downtown San Francisco after 7:00 p.m. where I work or Hollywood or Los Angeles where I work two months of the year. He goes, there are war zones. You can't walk outside at night. Period. There are places, there are major cities where you can't walk outside anywhere. I mean, aren't there rich parts of that city where you can walk outside? Or you must mean the business districts in those places, so to speak. Probably too dangerous. You're right.
So you know how we joke that the Democrats have to be against literally everything that Trump is for or anything he does, right? So you remember that when Vivek and RFK Jr. did this exercise challenge with a bunch of push-ups and pull-ups. And the New York Times writes an article warning against exercise, the dangers of exercise. Now, I didn't read the article, but I believe it's probably some
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thing like don't overdo it, which is just reasonably good advice. But the fact that the New York Times would have anything to say about exercise that's not you need more of it. How deep did they have to dig to find out something bad to say about exercise? Well, there was that one guy several years ago who tried to exercise and dropped dead on the treadmill. So you better consider that. All right,…
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